Obie McKenzie

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Vice-Chairman | Cordiant Capital

Prior to his retirement in 2018, Obie was Managing Director at BlackRock Financial, the largest institutional asset management firm in the United States. He has experienced significant success over the last 30 years as an institutional asset management marketing executive where he has been instrumental in gathering institutional assets for several firms. As a senior relationship manager for BlackRock, Mr. McKenzie is responsible for managing relationships with some of the largest pension funds in the United States, to include the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, New York City Employees’ Retirement System, and the Federal Reserve Employee Benefits System to name a few. In 2010 Mr. McKenzie received the AIMSE Richard A. Lothrop Outstanding Achievement Award as recognition for his outstanding achievements in the investment management industry and his community. In 2011 he was named by Black Enterprise Magazine as one of the 75 Most Powerful Blacks on Wall Street. In 2013 he was named Public Fund Marketer of the Year by Money Management Intelligence.

Mr. McKenzie is an accomplished public speaker and vocalist and has been an expository Bible teacher for over 30 years. He was a senior Bible teacher at Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem New York for over 20 years before joining Community Baptist Church of Englewood, NJ, where he is a layman. He is currently writing a book entitled “Bible Economics - Things I Wish I Had Known” in which he writes about his experiences in understanding money from his 42 years on Wall Street and his spiritual revelations as to what the Bible says about money, which he has developed from his 30 plus years of studying and teaching the Bible. Mr. McKenzie resides in Englewood, New Jersey with his wife Natalie Bowen-McKenzie. He is a proud father of one daughter, Keisha McKenzie-Pagden and grandfather to Samuel McKenzie-Pagden.

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